MJ AT THE BATMAN

I have a surprise for you.... Believe it or not, "Batman: The Dark Knight" is not the greatest film of all time. Its good... but its not great. I take that back... the film is great up until the final act, then it basically loses all its steam and kinda sucks. If you want to pinpoint the exact spot the film goes to shit, its as soon as "Two Face" comes onto the scene. The Two Face feels too unbelievable for the world that has been created, and his flip a coin routine was done a THOUSAND times better in "No Country For Old Men". Basically, Two Face is the suck.

Heath Ledger... he kills his performance as the Joker...err..poor choice of words I suppose. But this character is amazing. He gives a lifetime performance and is probably one of the greatest villians ever. There is no remorse and reasoning to this mad man. There is no back story as to why he is so twisted. (he does give and ever changing one to different people) He basically plays the Devil, and manipulates those around him to do wrong. He is not controlled by sex or money or any other vices that normal men succumb to. He even seems numb to pain. This is the main difference between this Joker and Nicholson's Joker. Nicholson's Joker was a lot more human, and even desired a woman.

Now here is my single biggest pet peeve about this film. Its Batman's friggin voice! The voice Christian Bale puts on when he is Batman sounds like he is attempting his best Ultimate Warrior impression. There were like 6 times when Batman murmured something that I couldn't help but laugh out loud. So overall, I would give this 2 and a half stars out of four, and Two of those are for Heath Ledger alone.

Now here is what pisses me off the most... the fucking fanboys. They swear up and down that this is the greatest film ever made and wont even listen to any negative criticism. I saw it with a huge comic book fan and even he wasn't that big on it. Its a good film no doubt, but its not worth creaming your pants over.... then again I have never like superheroes too much, and was more excited over "The Watchmen" trailer beforehand. Watch out for that one.

Ok let me really break this film down....SPOILERS ahead...

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Ok. So watching the film it becomes obvious that the Joker was going to continue on in the series. The movie builds up to this big climatic Joker/Batman fight to the death, but it never happened. Joker doesn't die and the big "fight" is reserved to Batman/Two Face. I was pissed that Two Face was "born" and died in this film. I thought he was just being groomed for the next film. When you have a villian as powerful as the Joker, you don't need to add another one. Adding Two Face just makes things more of a clusterfuck. And Two Face starts off as one of the most heroic guys in the film and then just suddenly transforms into an evil bastard. The transformation is quick and feels rushed. Then this Two Face character, who is very lame, winds up becoming the centerpiece of the film in its final act and steals the screen time from the Joker. I'm sorry, but I could give a fuck about Two Face. Every scene with Two Face made me ask, "Where the fuck is the Joker?!" This half ass afterthought of a character is going to take from me the showdown I was waiting whole movie for? and "Scarecrow" from the first movie makes one of the WORST cameos ever in a film.